Good Sunday to you, coaches! A busy morning and now taking a few minutes after some work time on the computer to touch base and then will get started on a few errands. Some I want to do (stop at a store for olive oil for my sister's package ... and fingers crossed I wrap it securely enough but it's a small bottle), and maybe a stop for eucalyptus bubble bath, along with the regular marketing and stuff. We have the house open but when I was working hard, I was sweating - wanted the AC on but ... should be fine later on.
Scale dropped for the first time in this plan on a weekend day - 165.6. My goal for next weekend was 164.x ... I will put the work in to get there. Thank you, Maryann - because I was going to say I hope I get there, but without the planning and following through, hope isn't going to cut it. DH dropped as well, so we were wondering, IS IT the massage that the food plan's creator said to do on this phase? Hm. All I know is I started a new envelope to save up for the next ones! ... So far, it's $3 richer haha. My mom's budgeting at work in me.
Spent about an hour this morning, cleaning out the pantry with things that are no longer on our food plan and will not be returning to it... (I thought I was very careful on HFCS, avoiding it in dressings, ketchup, snack bars like granola this or that, etc. FOUND it in our Campbell's tomato soup - like the third ingredient. I never thought of it in there. That's gone.) I have a bag to take to work for our kitchen area - the Crystal Light packets, etc. and one to return to Target if I can ... things that were bought recently but don't need/won't use ... and a bag for donate - things that are fine but good to donate to the food bank/drives. Now our shelves are nearly all things on our food plan. Oddly, the ONE thing that I was resistant to release was the opened package of potato buds - my comfort rush breakfast in the winter or crummy mornings before - nutritionally bare, but loved the mouth feel of the creamy texture. The feeling of having more skirts fit outweighs that right now. Dinner tonight will be grilled kabobs (chicken - me, steak - DH) ... and baked sweet potato "fries" - I put cayenne and cinnamon and s+p and they're so tasty ... This afternoon I'll be prepping tomorrow's pasta sauce and some other quick items for lunches, like turkey burgers and taco turkey meat. I'm knocking out a whole flock of those fowl...
Bill - Hasn't the moon been just gorgeous! Stunning. I hope to dine outside tonight if the mosquitoes are on holiday. They've been worse this year because of the continued rain, I think. I hate to fog for them because we have bats that I'd like to keep around us. Looked at a bat house, but my agri rep said they're good, but then yellowjackets move in quickly into them. Nixed that.
OneByOne - Good call to get mind set and onto new program! I have a magnet that says something to the like of, "A year from now, what will you wish you'd done today?" ... I have that front and center on the fridge. I think now, boy, if I'd started this or that a year ago... Think where you'll be heading into next fall! What do you want to see? To be feeling? To have done?
GardenerJoy - Yay on the new computer! We need a new one at home and I'm waiting on our work to possibly sell off the older ones they replaced, which I like more than this new one. If so, I'll put my name into the lottery and hope to be able to purchase one. Our current home one is super slow and clunky ... Good way to view Sunday - I need to take my cue from you. I feel like I deserve to relax but have too much to get done. Will put audiobook in the car and just roll.
Maryann - Do you gather for the Christmas gift name pulling? Do you do it up with holiday music, etc.? Have fun with that and hope you're able to get in some relaxing time, as well! Any end in sight with this strike?
Karen - Just saw your note! Your trip is sounding so wonderful. I'm reading many of the posts to DH when we're in the car and i have his attention But showing him the photos at lights is hard so I bring it up on the laptop when home. I have to say, this sounds like something we'd love to do. I'd hate to leave my pets that long, but maybe as you're doing, in between them years down the line. Another reason to get/stay healthy! Stay "strong like bull" ... Nuestra toro!